Stage 7 All stages
Software & Gear
6 courses · 40 lessons · 5 h 11 min
Running Serato, rekordbox, Traktor and VirtualDJ with confidence, plus the real-world kit: PA, speakers, microphones, laptops, USB and troubleshooting.
Courses
-
Course 1 of 6
Amps, Speakers and PA
The most watched gear lesson on the channel is about linking up amplifiers, which tells you how often this goes wrong. Matching amps to speakers, what bridging means, where to put…
-
Course 2 of 6
Cables, Connections and Getting Plugged In
Most dead channels and most hum are a cable. Repairing phono leads, getting a controller into a club mixer without stopping the music, and what fader start does - which is the…
-
Course 3 of 6
Looking After a Turntable
A skipping needle is almost never the record. Anti-skating, the strobe dots, what the platter and tonearm need to stay working - and a list of the things people do to a turntable…
-
Course 4 of 6
Software, USB and Your Music Library
Getting your music onto the kit, and getting the software to agree with you. Importing and exporting, analysis and quantise, DVS so timecode vinyl drives the software, and the…
-
Course 5 of 6
Lighting, Smoke and Flight Cases
The part of mobile work that is not sound. Rigging lighting so it does something for the room, keeping a smoke machine from clogging, building a case that survives being loaded…
-
Course 6 of 6
Recording and Streaming Your Mixes
Getting a mix off the kit and onto the internet with audio that does not sound like a phone in a pocket. Recording to Audacity, and the specific business of feeding clean stereo…
